anyone else thinking that with the rockets current roster and the fact that theyre doing so well without yao, it makes yao expendable? i mean, slim chances that they trade yao, but it seems to me that theyve shown they are a fast paced team and yao slows the game down...kinda like the suns (a fast paced team, with shaq slowwing them down).

"the victorious warrior wins first, and then goes to war; the defeated warrior goes to war first, and hopes to win."- The Art of War

EMan32 wrote:anyone else thinking that with the rockets current roster and the fact that theyre doing so well without yao, it makes yao expendable?

Nope. Too much money from the asian market that the Rockets would lose.

Purely from a team performance approach, I think so (for the right deal, of course), but not when you consider all the profit they make because of Yao.

Wouldnt that be weird though if they decided to shop him..............its such a huge market that they could demand and make a case to get extra players/value on top of the exchange for Yao.................that would be a weird one but sadly (or maybe not, whichever way you look at it) one that is/will perhaps become common with all the foreign markets interest.

badabing8888 wrote:That make me curious to see how much Rocket related revenue in generated in China or from the global asian community in general.

According to Forbes, only the Knicks, Lakers, Bulls and Pistons (barely) have more value than Houston. Their anual revenue is $149 mil, and that amount has almost doubled since they drafted Yao (and it's increasing year after year).

I don't have the specific data from the asian market, but the team went from an anual revenue of 82 mil in 2003 to 149 in 2007, all since Yao was drafted. That says a lot about the kind of impact he had on that franchise.